Tables and chairs made up a circle in the Murray High School gym. Thirty-two children sat, staring at each other, toes tapping, knees fidgeting. “Negotiations may begin now,” a voice said, as a bell began to ring.

This TED Talk, is about a geo-political exercise I created for public school children in 1978. Its consistent successful outcome over the last three decades (negotiating and solving fifty inter-locking global problems, and having every nation’s asset value and...

NPR/TED Radio Hour and the newest episode “The Case For Optimism” features an interview with John Hunter. You can listen (and share on social media, if you so choose!) using these permanent links: John Hunter’s segment (Part 2 of the show) on NPR.org:...

Tune into to an inspiring interview with John Hunter from the World Peace Game and Master Class in Melk, Austria (in German): http://www.stiftsgymnasium-melk.org/unesco/?p=377 Register for a Master Class here: WPG Master...

Dear Friends of the World Peace Game, Tune in tonight, March 31st, 2016, for the Charlottesville Inside-Out public television episode featuring the World Peace Game Camp and International Master Class from June, 2015. For those of you in the Charlottesville/Richmond...

Wendy Calise, Head of the Countryside Montessori School in Northbrook, IL, generously volunteered the school, as an alternative location to host the WPG Master Class and Game Camp. Normally, from the planning stage to the actual event's realization, facilitating a...

During this year's Austrian World Peace Game 2015 at Emmersdorf, journalist and artist Catherine Menhofer audio-recorded game action and interviews with student players and teachers. Catherine designs articles, reports, and news for OE1, an Austrian radio program...

"9-Year-Old Challenge! World Peace Game" -John Hunter ジョン・ハンター 「9歳が挑戦！世界平和ゲーム」 The book, World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements is now available in Japanese translation. The book, game, and master classes have been gaining interest and demand...

TED Talk, "Teaching With the World Peace Game" to Be Featured On Japanese Public TV Show John's TED2011 Talk will be aired on NHK, which is Japan's equivalent of BBC. It will be featured on Super Presentation, a NHK program which presents the top TED Talks (John...

Pam Moran is the superintendent of schools for Albemarle County and is the president of the Virginia Association of School Superintendents. Recently she accompanied John Hunter and his class of enthusiatic, knowledgable, excited 4th graders to visit Leon Panetta and...

WORLD PEACE AND OTHER 4TH GRADE ACHIEVEMENTS TO SHOW ON OPENING NIGHT Thanks to Straight.com for the nice article about the film "World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements" being selected to show on Opening Night at the Projecting Change Film Festival. Here is the...

Glowingly reviewed by The Kirkus Review, Booklist and gaming pioneer Jane McGonigal, John’s new book, "World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements" which shares a title with Chris Farina’s documentary film will be out nationwide on April 2nd. John will meet readers...

Recently, John Hunter gave a reading and book signing at Park Roads Books in Charlotte, North Carolina. C-SPAN Book TV recorded the talk. Book Discussion on World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements John Hunter talked about his book, World Peace and Other 4th-Grade...

The World Peace Game was hosted at Tandem Friends School during the last week of June. 35 students gathered each morning for a week to problem-solve and collaborate around the world dilemmas John Hunter has designed into his game. Most students came from Virginia;...

News truly travels around the world, fast. Within twelve hours of the piece about John Hunter and his class visiting the Pentagon appearing in the Washington Post, the Tai Pei Times had picked up the story. We continue to be delighted by the interested in World Peace...

If John Hunter were to call a Press Conference at the Pentagon to order, of course he would use his bell. The Washington Post describes how the Pentagon staff extended an invitation to John Hunter to bring his current class of World Peace Game player to visit the...

Serendity brought National Geographic's Good Traveler Aric Queen to John Hunter's classroom during the first week of May. The interest was mutual as John's curious mind talks with Aric about his world travels, and Aric is impressed by John's compassionate demeanor and...

Many thanks to Steve Hargadon for a great conversation and interactive session on the Future of Education. What a fun interview with so many wonderful people online from all over the world (Bangalor, Nepal, Singapore, Virginia) -- true global participation, and an...

Filmmaker Chris Farina and John Hunter will present the film World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements, followed by a panel discussion, at the Projecting Change Film Festival in Vancouver. Their film was selected to show on Opening Night at 7pm on April 17. Here...

On April 25 at 7:30 pm. the IFC Center at 323 Sixth Avenue at West Third Street in New York City will be hosting teacher John Hunter, filmmaker Chris Farina for the New York Premiere of World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements. A panel discussion moderated by...

The world we live in demands constant learning and strong problem-solving skills. We are delighted that the World Peace Game is featured in Edutopia A Parent's Guide to 21st Century Learning. You can follow this link to download their...

John Hunter was recently interviewed about the World Peace Game on Charlottesville's morning show on WINA 1070. He describes their classes's recent visit to the Pentagon. The Pentagon invited John and his student delegation to visit as a result of a screening of...

Teaching children to think, to care for others, and to care for the world. Is there anything else? What John Hunter does with his students by presenting to them the opportunity to understand, research, consider, and collaborate over real world issues and problems, is...

GAME ON! If you have a subscription to Weekly Readers, you can see the feature they have done on John Hunter's World Peace Game. How exciting! Look's like the Weekly Reader has not changed much since we were kids! Young readers will enjoy reading about the World Peace...

Hunter, an elementary-school teacher, is a legend in his home state of Virginia, where the World Peace Game he designed in 1978 allows fourth-graders to game out various scenarios of global doom or global cooperation. The game, which is played on a huge multi-level...

Recently I managed to eavesdrop and observe as diplomats from around the globe gathered to converse at UVA’s Darden Business School. Their objective: to achieve world peace. Seriously, this happened just two weeks ago, and I was there, watching as world leaders worked...

Each month this school year, NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday will celebrate stories of public school teachers across the country as a component of StoryCorp’s National Teachers Initiative. This week the initiative highlighted John and two former World Peace Game players....

In a special year-end collaboration TED and The Huffington Post reviewed 18 great ideas of 2011 via posts featuring the full TEDTalk with original blog posts that the two organizations think will shape 2012. The nearly month long count down has highlighted a variety...

“I’m sorry class, but we’re going to have fun today.” This is how teacher, musician, composer and game designer John Hunter starts his class in the 2010 documentary World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements, which tells the story of how he uses his World Peace Game...